AARP South Carolina

Michelin North America, Inc. was today awarded the 2013 AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50 award. This is the sixth time the manufacturing company has been honored by the AARP since the award program was created in 2001; previously Michelin was also recognized in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.

Here is a great way to take in a great baseball game and help the Low Country Food Bank. AARP’s Senior Slugger Night with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans is July 12 at 7:05 p.m. When you come out to the ballpark, bring a bag of nonperishable food items and drop them off at the AARP table near the entrance plaza.

Come and celebrate the Palmetto State’s 225 th Birthday and enjoy some great South Carolina treats on May 23!

Duke Energy wants to raise your electricity bill by 16.3%. This would be a more than $200 a year increase for the average customer who uses 1000 kwh of electricity each month.

The Walgreens Way to Well Health Tour with AARP is dedicated to providing free prevention and early detection health services to the nation’s underserved communities. Now through December, the tour travels the country providing free tests, assessment, education, and consulting services to populations of communities with the highest prevalence for leading diseases and uninsured and unemployed community members.

CHARLOTTE — AARP members from the Carolinas joined a chorus of protesters at the Duke Energy shareholders meeting who feel the company’s rate hike requests are excessive in today’s economy.

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See what South Carolina 50+ voters are saying about chained CPI, a proposal on the table in Washington to cut Social Security and Veterans' benefits. Click on the graphic to understand how chained CPI harms South Carolina residents.

Thousands of poor South Carolinian's with disabilities continue to live in grossly inadequate conditions in community residential care facilities (CRCFs) across the state. April 9, 2013 Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc. (P&A) released Still…No Place to Call Home, an update of its 2009 report, No Place to Call Home. The new report documents conditions at 14 CRCFs across the state. The report’s findings reveal continued lack of oversight of facilities that are dirty, provide inadequate food, do not administer medications correctly, violate residents’ rights, and do not provide protection from potential harm.

AARP South Carolina, a non-partisan membership organization for people 50+, announces its 1st Congressional District general election debate hosted by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and broadcast live on WCBD-TV April 17 at 8 p.m.